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Bath Festival…. another day with lots of cake…

No matter how lovely the cake, you can’t eat it all. So Bobo Stenson has done a solo gig without me. Kevin Le Grande will give a lecture about Cannonball Adderly followed by a gig by Empirical ( in the lovely Little Theatre cinema), also without me. I will see Empirical later though, opening for Brandford Marsalis. Its rumoured (by my fellow Bristol blogger ) that Marsalis will be without Mr Jeff Tain Watts on drums. Maybe he doesn’t like Bath. He was due to come last year with McCoy Tyner and didn’t appear.

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surprised you could resist Stenson – though I agree nine sets in three days was a lot to take in!

He sounded wonderful in that space, though. The set finished with a particularly affecting slow version of Ornette’s Blues Connotation (I think it was), which had a close your eyes and it could be Keith Jarrett feel, but I think Bobo got there first…